Soundbar

A soundbar that is configured to be located in a listening area that has a ceiling located above the soundbar, wherein the soundbar is configured to produce sound that is provided to an expected location of a person in the listening area, the soundbar comprising:

• a housing;
• and
• a plurality of acoustic radiators carried by the housing and configured to output sound for at least left, right, center, left height, and right height audio channels, wherein the plurality of acoustic radiators comprise two separate dipole acoustic radiators that are configured to emit sound in opposite directions along a main radiation axis, wherein one of the dipole acoustic radiators is configured to output sound for the left height audio channel and the other dipole acoustic radiator is configured to output sound for the right height audio channel;
• wherein the dipole acoustic radiators define sound emission main lobes forward and backward along their main radiation axes and further define nulls transverse to their main radiation axes, wherein the nulls exhibit a sound pressure level that is at least 10 dB less than the sound pressure level of the main lobes at one or more sound frequencies;
• wherein the left height and right height dipole acoustic radiators are each configured to such that their main radiation axis is directed upward toward the ceiling, and wherein the nulls of each dipole acoustic radiator are orthogonal to the main radiation axis and are directed toward the expected location of the person in the listening area;
• wherein the height channels are reproduced by more sound pressure radiated along the main radiation axis and reflecting off the ceiling and reaching the expected location of the person as compared to sound radiated along the null axis that directly reaches the expected location of the person.